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Energy storage

227 tracked companies; 7 companies with incident history, 16 unique documented incidents. Ranked by RobotRisk index; tick marks industry median where nonzero. All industries.

Analyst brief

Seven of 213 energy-storage companies carry records, totaling 16 incidents with fire as the dominant type (8 of 16), followed by recall (4) and single entries for malfunction-related counts, fatality, and regulatory action. Severity is weighted toward level 3 (9 of 16) with one level-5 event. The concentration of fire incidents across grid-scale and battery manufacturers (LG Energy Solution, Fluence, Tesla Energy, Eos Energy, Samsung SDI, EnerSys) is consistent with the known thermal-runaway failure mode of large-format battery systems, and the pattern recurs across multiple independent operators rather than a single company.

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Company risk ranking

CompanyRobotRisk index (0-100)Industry percentileBandIncidents
LG Energy Solution
61.7
100% High 5
Tesla Energy
41.8
100% Elevated 3
Fluence
33.7
99% Elevated 4
Eos Energy Enterprises
23.5
99% Elevated 1
Blue Solutions
18.1
98% Elevated 1
Samsung SDI
13.8
98% Low 1
EnerSys
11.6
97% Low 1

Recent incidents

SevDateCompanyTypeLocationIncidentSource
S323 Nov 2025Eos Energy Enterprises fire Turtle Creek, PA, USAFire at Eos Energy's Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania manufacturing facility · 1 manufacturing facility, large emergency response WPXI
S3~Nov 2025Tesla Energy recall USATesla recalls Powerwall 2 AC battery systems over fire/burn risk · ~10,500 units U.S. Consumer Product Sa
S323 Sep 2025Tesla Energy fire Boulder City, NV, USATesla Megapack battery fire burns for hours at Boulder City solar facility KTNV
S527 Jul 2025LG Energy Solution fatality Holland, MI, USAWorker killed in accident at LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, Michigan MLive
S416 Jan 2025LG Energy Solution fire Moss Landing, CA, USAMoss Landing 300MW BESS fire (Vistra) destroys facility using LG Energy Solution cells · 300MW / tens of thousands of battery cells, 1 facility destroyed Utility Dive
S205 Sep 2024Fluence fire Escondido, CA, USASDG&E Escondido, California BESS fire 'well managed' by Fluence-supported response · 1 site, minimal impact, no injuries reported Energy-Storage.News
S2~Apr 2022Fluence malfunction Chandler, AZ, USAOverheating event at AES 10MW Chandler, Arizona storage facility · 10MW facility, 1 event, no injuries Fluence Energy SEC filin
S306 Feb 2020Samsung SDI regulatory ESS facility, South Jeolla Province, South KoreaSamsung SDI batteries implicated in South Korea government ESS fire probe · part of a 27-fire national ESS incident cluster The Korea Times
S3~Oct 2019LG Energy Solution fire South Korea ESS fires linked predominantly to LG Chem/LG Energy Solution battery cells · 17 of 27 national ESS fire incidents ETNews / Korea Times
S319 Sep 2019EnerSys fire Richmond, KY, USAFire at EnerSys Richmond, Kentucky motive-power battery plant · 1 manufacturing facility, ~$46.1M insured loss EnerSys SEC 8-K filing
S419 Apr 2019LG Energy Solution fire Surprise, AZ, USAAPS McMicken (Surprise, AZ) battery explosion injures four firefighters · 1 site, 4 firefighters injured IEEE Spectrum
S4~Apr 2019Fluence fire Surprise, AZ, USAAPS McMicken (Surprise, AZ) battery explosion injures four firefighters · 1 site, 4 firefighters injured Energy-Storage.News
S3not documentedTesla Energy recall AustraliaTesla Powerwall 2 battery recall in Australia over overheating/fire risk 7NEWS
S3not documentedLG Energy Solution recall LG Energy Solution recalls home/ESS batteries after thermal events, one injury · US residential ESS recall, ~$350M cost EnergyTrend
S2not documentedFluence malfunction Overheating event at 300MW Fluence-supplied storage facility · 300MW facility, 1 event, no injuries Fluence Energy SEC filin
S3not documentedBlue Solutions recall GermanyMercedes-Benz eCitaro Buses With Solid-State Batteries Recalled · multiple eCitaro buses InsideEVs

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